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So if a second dose was given on, say, Day 21 or Day 28, normal cell recovery would be complete, but the cancer cells would be hit again before they had recovered, and so would be further damaged. By giving more courses, at the same interval, normal cell integrity could be maintained, whilst the cancer cells were progressively killed off. This is the principal of intermittent combination cytotoxic chemotherapy, and it underpinned the great successes of cytotoxic therapy during the 1960s and 1970s.

Many drugs were shown to attack cells at all active phases of the cell cycle. Because they only attack cells which are actually in the cell cycle (as opposed to being in the resting Go stage), these are called cycle-specific drugs. They include: the alkylating agents and the platinum drugs. Some other drugs only attack cells during certain phases of the cell cycle. 9). During the 1970s oncologists tried to exploit these differences by designing drug combinations and treatment schedules based on cell cycle theory.

Farnesyl transferase is another key enzyme in the MAPK/Ras pathway. Tipifarnib and lonafarnib were drugs which were shown to inhibit farnesyl transferase and gave promising results in laboratory studies but have failed to show any significant benefit in clinical trials. Suggestions for Further Reading Le Tourneau C, Faivre S, Raymond E. New developments in multitargeted therapy for patients with solid tumours. Cancer Treat Rev. 2008;34:37–48. Schreck R, Rapp VR. Raf kinases: oncogenesis and drug discovery.